National Parks. 



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Extracts from 1912 Report of Resident Engineer, Yosemite National 



Park. 



For a distance of 3,085 feet a Telford base has been covered with 

 macadam to a width of 22 feet. The macadam has a thickness of eight 

 inches at the center and three inches at the sides, requiring about 1,970 

 cubic yards per mile. This work cost $1.86 per linear foot of road. 



For a distance of 4,485 feet a roadbed was graded, covered with a 

 Telford base,, and curbed with stones, the width being 22 feet. This 

 work was done at a cost of 64 cents per hnear foot of roadway. 



All of the above road work was done on the road between Camp 

 Ahwahnee and the Pohono Bridge. 



The water supply of the Yosemite Valley is obtained from springs 

 at the foot of the cliff below Glacier Point. A new collecting well 

 has been built and put into service that catches water that has hereto- 

 fore escaped around the old spring house and could not be used as a 

 part of the supply. It is intended to build another collecting well, and 

 at its completion practically all of the water at this source will become 

 available for use in the valley. Six thousand feet of 8-inch cast-iron 

 water pipe has been installed, taking the place of an old steel pipe line, 

 a portion of which has been taken up and relaid to form a temporary 

 line from Yosemite Village to Camp Yosemite, the old one being too 

 small to furnish sufficient water. It is important that the water system 

 be completed with cast-iron pipe of suitable sizes, so that a sufficient water 

 supply may be assured and adequate fire protection provided for the 

 buildings of the valley. 



Wing dams have been built into the Merced River at points where 

 the banks have been subject to heavy erosion. 



David A. Sherfey, 



Resident Engineer. 



Extracts from 1912 Report of the Superintendent of Crater Lake 

 National Park. 



The total number of visitors to the park during the season was 5,235. 



Crater Lake is well stocked with rainbow trout; those caught are 

 usually from 14 to 20 inches in length, and some have been caught 24 or 

 26 inches long and weighing 6 or 7 pounds. 



W. F. Arant, 



Superintendent. 



Extracts from 1912 Report of the Acting Superintendent of the 

 Glacier National Park. 



The Glacier National Park was established by the act of Congress 

 approved May 11, 1910, (36 Stat., 354), and is located in northwestern 

 Montana. It embraces over 1,400 square miles of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains and adjacent territory, extending north from the main line of the 



